Jen may not be autistic after all

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Hi Jen,

Do your parent's trust your therapist's diagnostic claims? Do you?

I agree with Tawaki that you can have ASD and any number of other symptoms or traits that may overlap or be part of other comorbid conditions.

Is your therapist a psychologist? if so I'm surprised they haven't explained the possibility of comorbid conditions?

Are you really hearing voices? how often? ask your parents to get a second opinion as this is serious and you need to be sure. regardless of what you have everyone here on WP cares for you

I'm fully diagnosed autistic....but I have also been diagnosed having mild schizophrenia.

Well my grandmother dosnt believe I have anything and my uncle believes I'm autistic


No she's not a psychologist and my therapist says I need to take the ados to be sure I'm autistic she thought i was at first but now she's unsure although originally she once wouldn't take me because she only dealt with people with autism and mental illness and not just autism.

As for the voices I do hear part to all day but I mostly hear them talking though my mouth although rare to occasionally I will hear them in and outside my head.

Thanks :heart: :)

I at times confuse sounds like a door opening with voices. I know that question is asked on some online autism tests. I understand it is sometimes an autism trait to have sensory mixing like that. But these are not voices actually saying anything. It's like thinking I hear somebody talking when in fact it was just something like a door opening or a car going by.

My understandings is that hearing actual voices actually saying something is associated with psychosis. But it is possible to have a mixture of autism and a psychosis.

Many psychics hear voices and they are not psychotic (although I have come across a few who definitely seemed to be delusional, most are not). It's called clairaudience.

Regular (non-talking) sounds in the street could sound like voices. Cars screeching could sound like some person screeching.

I have what r2d2 has. I confuse ambient sounds with voices. In high school, there was this one particular "breezeway" that I thought I heard a choir singing when I walked through it. I took it to be a hallucination even though it really only happened in that spot, and sometimes I take sounds in the house as cat meows or the kids or husband talking, when they aren't. It seems to happen more when I am doing housework or looking for things and seems to be a result of messed up sensory processing as I am making my own noise, hearing other people's noise, and the noise a house makes on its own. It's all muffled stuff like broken up words and discordant sounds, not actual discernible voices I hear and none of it is negative or scary. Sometimes I see a shadow or movement out the corner of my eye and get a little startled inside but then realize it was just my own shadow falling through the doorway to my side, made more noticeable because of the way I turned my head or because of a change in the light in the opposite window or whatever. There have been times I have heard things that other people haven't or when I am alone, but I know I am not imagining it because the cats have reacted to it too. Always useful to have a around to confirm my own sanity to myself.

I am not sure if I am on the autism spectrum though, and sometimes wonder if I am more on the schizophrenia spectrum just because when I had major depression combined with major change and severe pure OCD, I had a mild psychotic episode but with no "real" hallucinations. Some more fear-based delusions/psychosis common to post-partum depression. And some other things especially late in the evening or at night that seem to border on dissociative and scare me. But I also have narcolepsy and a funky EEG (one doctor was convinced I have epilepsy) so that could be that. It also coincides with getting sad.

Edited to add last second paragraph and correct a typo or two in the first paragraph.

Autism with bipolar makes both harder for me. Psychosis supposedly happened after meltdowns, but I'm not certain.

One other thing about hearing voices. Like a lot of people with autism, I have super sensitive hearing and pick up on all kinds of distant stuff no one else hears. Like today we were in the woods and I heard voices singing for a few minutes. It could have been a schizophrenic thing, or maybe I picked up on actual singing going on somewhere far off.